Abstract
The G and P genes of human respiratory syncytial viruses (subgroup A), isolated between 1961 and 1989, were analyzed by RNase A one-dimensional fingerprinting, using the Long strain as the reference. Total RNA extracted from cells infected with the different isolates was hybridized to radiolabeled antisense G or P RNA probes of the Long virus. The RNA:RNA heteroduplexes were digested with RNase A and the resistant products analyzed by gel electrophoresis. Comparative analysis of the cleavage patterns revealed extensive genetic heterogeneity in both genes among viruses isolated in different epidemics. In contrast, 13 viruses isolated in Montevideo during a 3-month period showed much more restricted heterogeneity; thus, 11 viruses represented the predominant type of this outbreak and only 2 other viruses generated different RNA cleavage patterns distantly related to the major type. Statistical analysis of the results obtained indicated progressive accumulation of genetic changes with time along cocirculating evolutionary lineages within the same antigenic subgroup of RS virus. The results are discussed in terms of a model for RS virus evolution.
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